Quotes About Violence

The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

War is sweet to those who have not experienced it.

Proof of war, when it comes, always comes too late.

Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

war is a man's game ... the killing machine has a gender and it is male.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

Violence must be inflicted once for all; people will then forget what it tastes like and so be less resentful. Benefits must be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.

Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

War's dirty little secret is that some men love it.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts.

The history of mankind is a history of war.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.